Listeners Quotes - Page 9

• It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

  Ayn Rand

  Discovery, Venture, Opinion

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• I know for me as an artist, I think I do myself and my listeners a disservice, if I don't listen to some of the best music out there. If I was an architect or a carpenter, I'm going to want to study the best architects and carpenters and I'm going to appreciate their work, because they're going to inspire me to do well. And I just look at them as great architects and I just appreciate the gift that God gave them.

  LeCrae

  Thinking, Artist, Appreciate

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.

  Ab-Soul

  Connections, Records, World

  Source: truelaurels.tumblr.com

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• The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.

  Melissa Febos

  Secret, Crafts, Mediators

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you're not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you're trying to tell us. We're always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity and groom you to be future leaders.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teenager, Always Trying, Giving

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• As far as the media is concerned, they ought to hate me. Before I came along, they had a monopoly. Before I came along, nationally all there was, was the three networks, the big newspapers, and CNN. When I started in '88, that was it. And now look. That monopoly they had is gone. Now there is Fox News, from 1996. That was nine years after I started. You got all kinds of conservative talk radio out there now. And that's done nothing but grow. I have not lost a single listener because of all the other shows. We've grown the pie, so to speak.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Media, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

  Frank Zappa

  Powerful, Dirty, Fire

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• Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. When you're thinking of your listener, that's when you start stuttering and it's just because you're nervous that your listener is passing judgment.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Want

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

  Jane Fonda

  Leaving, Female, Radio

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

  Diane Setterfield

  Stories, Cases, Significance

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Thinking, Hearing, Chance

  Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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• You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.

  Dave Ramsey

  Goal, Sound, Different

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• It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Song, Sad Music, Made

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.

  Terri Windling

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

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• That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

  Nancy Farmer

  Stories, Kind, Spells

  Nancy Farmer (1994). “The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm: A Novel”, p.103, Scholastic Inc.

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• Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

  Susan Fletcher

  Falling In Love, Children, Hero

  Susan Fletcher (2011). “Shadow Spinner”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

  Walter de La Mare

  Men, Iron, Feet

  'The Listeners' (1912)

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• Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

  Ruskin Bond

  Book, Wish, Saving

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• Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Good Listener

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1258, Delacorte Press

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• A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

  Max Eastman

  Land, Play, Goal

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• Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

  Don DeLillo

  Nice, Lying, Night

  Don DeLillo (1991). “Libra”, p.71, Penguin

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• Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

  Truman Capote

  Secret, Should

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• It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

  Carson McCullers

  Heart, Causes, Cold

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.271, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

  Christopher Pike

  Gossip, World, Good Listener

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Symphony, Shelves

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